General Information

The Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE) Program focuses on the critical environmental questions of the day: problems that transcend state and national borders, yet also have local relevance. ESE Program research and training activities are both experimental and analytical in nature, often involving laboratory or field studies but also modeling and policy analysis.

Both the research and instruction recognize the interconnections between soil, air, water and biota, as well as the interdependence of human and ecological health. Equally important, the Program emphasizes the interactions and interdependencies between science, engineering, public policy economics and law in the protection of the environment and public health.

Although housed in the School of Public Health, the ESE Program is an interdepartmental program involving twelve academic departments in the Schools of Engineering, Public Health, Public Policy and Law, as well as in the College of letters and Sciences.